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If Rachel Reeves were serious about growth, she would look to the EU

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: There is one shortcut to prosperity: reverse some of the damage of Brexit

The Independent UK

In Pictures: Jimmy Carter continued campaigning long after leaving power

The former US president was an elder statesman on the world stage long after handing over to Ronald Reagan.

Evening Standard

Alec Douglas-Home v Harold Wilson: the 1964 general election

Successful candidates were advised to curb weird enthusiasms, not kiss babies and ask their wives to tone down their hats

The Guardian - UK

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How the ‘Prescott Punch’ came to define him as Labour’s firebrand – and a total necessity for Blair

Obituary: The charismatic former deputy prime minister, who has died at the age of 86, was known best for punching a member of the electorate and acting as a vital bridge for Tony Blair to reach the unions

The Independent UK

Peter Jay obituary

Economic journalist and broadcaster labelled ‘the cleverest young man in England’

The Guardian - UK

Peter Jay, journalist and diplomat, dies aged 87

Tributes paid to one of the UK’s foremost economics commentators who was also ambassador to Washington

The Guardian - UK

Jim Callaghan’s tight fist was his undoing – as it could be for Rachel Reeves

There are many parallels between the situation facing Labour’s 1960s chancellor and today’s. But will Reeves grasp the higher borrowing nettle?

The Guardian - UK

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Are Starmer and Labour really in hock to ‘union paymasters’?

PM faces pitfalls navigating what are crucial relationships but claims by jilted Tories don’t ring true, say experts

The Guardian - UK

Sunak faces long goodbye as he fills in during Tory leadership contest

It’s likely to be a gruelling few months for former PM but his party hopes it buys them time to find a future winner

The Guardian - UK

A respectful question for Labour: do you have any real change?

The new government has promised things will be different: but when it comes to spending, we seem stuck on old Tory policies

The Guardian - UK

A defeated Rishi Sunak should go, but my advice is: not too quickly

What our politics and government need is a restoration of continuity and stability – not a premature resignation, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Rachel Reeves pitches herself as Labour's Margaret Thatcher (annoying just about everyone)

Few suspected at the time that the 1979 election was also a 1979 moment. Sure, the gravediggers were on strike and James Callaghan spoke of a "sea-change in politics" about which there was little anyone could do. But the Conservative manifesto of that year was far from unadulterated Thatcherism. Not…

Evening Standard

May general election? The economic case for going early (and clinging on)

Falling inflation and tax cuts in a February budget would signal a spring poll but weak growth and rising mortgage bills bode caution

The Guardian - UK

Remembering Margaret Thatcher's disastrous legacy

On May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the UK.

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s shambolic government is achieving nothing. Must Britain really wait 15 months to throw it out?

Peter Bone’s suspension is likely to mean another lost Tory seat and a delay to the election we need sooner rather than later, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

The event that will decide the next election has already happened – even if Rishi Sunak doesn’t know it yet

With inflation and mortgage rates painfully high, the government can no longer rely on votes from its blue wall, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Urge to soothe markets may blunt Labour’s edge on Tories

Scaling back of green prosperity plan reflects a possibly costly desire to project fiscal stability

The Guardian - UK

Lord Morris of Aberavon obituary

Veteran Welsh Labour MP who served for more than 40 years and became attorney general in the late 1990s

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‘We needed a massive amount of resilience’: the female Labour MPs from the class of ’87

At the general election that year, the number of women in the Commons jumped to (an albeit still tiny) 41. Some talk about the sexism – and the solidarity

Daily Mirror

Rare coins worth THOUSANDS of pounds revealed - check your spare change

Certain rare coins are highly sought after by collectors, and could be worth hundreds or even thousands of pounds so it may be worth while keeping an eye on your spare change

The Guardian - UK

This winter of discontent will harden the feeling that the Tories have broken Britain

The cabinet is taking a dangerous gamble when it calculates that the public will blame the unions, not the government, for an advent calendar of strikes

Wales Online

Rishi Sunak's car comes with a secret escape hatch

It also has a self-healing fuel tank and a tamper-proof exhaust

Evening Standard

Liz Truss rules out spending cuts as the cost of borrowing soars

The ability to speak truth to power is a rare skill. But power speaking truth to the people is perhaps rarer still.

Daily Mirror

'My 50th year at the Labour conference - and for my sins I will be back again'

This is the beating heart of honest, awkward, idealistic, funny, cynical, romantic British politics, writes Paul Routledge as he recalls half a century of long speeches, block votes and late nights drinking

The Guardian - UK

Secret of the Queen’s soft power – across seven decades and 15 prime ministers

Elizabeth II got on well with PMs of widely differing politics and backgrounds and played a key role in the background of British politics

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